Saturday, June 26, 2010

How I scored an iPhone 4 on launch day.

On June 15 I tried to preorder an 32GB iPhone 4 and have it shipped tomy home on launch day. I started at 4:30 am and finally gave up at 8am. Due to a little thing called work, I couldn't try again until 11 pm, and by that time, the shipping datehad slipped to July 2nd. I said screw it, and placed the order. Iwasn't happy, but I was getting an iPhone. By the next day I wasfeeling good! The shipping date for new orders had slipped to july 15th.

June 23rd I decided to stop by Best Buy to see if they were going tohave any phones for walk up customers on launch day. When I asked,the girl said to hold on that they had a situation, and that she wouldhave to call the manager and ask her. Umm. She called the manager andthen she asked me what time I could be there to pickup a phone! Isaid I could be there at 7 am.Apparently, they had a person back out of a preorder, and they had an extra!

I gave her my info, and she wrote my name on the glorious iPhone 4 box.

Thursday morning I arrive at the store at 6:40am. There were two otherguys and the best buy mobile manager. We chatted for a while, then alittle after 7 am they let us in the store and I got my phone!

I drove home and immediately cancelled the apple.com preorder.

The only downside to all this was the small detail that I ended upgetting a 16GB model instead of a 32GB.